External Libs (was Re: libcurl?!)

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Wed Oct 31 16:39:39 UTC 2001


"Stephen Pair" <spair at advantive.com> is widely believed to have written:

> I think this is a great idea.  It is really easy with FFI to interface
> Squeak with external libs
As a general rule it will usually perform better if you write a plugin
to interface to the external library. You get the chance to make a nice
clean interface for the Squeak side, you can handle structures
effectively etc etc.

tim

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